What I’m Watching: The Flight Attendant

The Flight Attendant: Season 2, Episode 7 “No Exit” (B+)

This was an intense episode, one that gave us a few major developments and leaves some even more spectacular question marks going into the finale. I like that Annie expressed that she now gets why Cassie never listened to her, and it was great to watch Shane’s reaction as Cassie blew his cover to Annie and Max after he made it abundantly clear that she had to stop telling people. Annie and Max did have success in their endeavor, running into Gabrielle and Esteban at the pier and then getting the drop on them. Tasing them was therapeutic, but getting the ring back and putting their engagement back on track was the more significant part of it. While Shane was happy to help Cassie despite her refusal to listen to him at any point, he didn’t seem open at all to reconsidering his stance on Megan, who needs whatever friends she can get now that she has a North Korean in her trunk and nowhere to turn. It’s still hard to figure out who’s really on Cassie’s side, with Dot seemingly looking out for her and Benjamin apparently motivated by something else, and all we really got was that brief standoff with Benjamin and Shane on the pier while Cassie was on the ride. Encountering so many different versions of herself in the same outfit was claustrophobic, but that wasn’t nearly as crazy as what Cassie experienced when Grace showed up on the ride with her. Finding out that Benjamin had been stabbed and that Grace was the one impersonating her was dizzying enough, and now she’s next to a dead body for the second time but in a much more public place.

What I’m Watching: Breeders

Breeders: Season 1, Episode 7 “No Exit” (B+)

I was going to start this review by noting that we’re past focusing on Ally mourning her father, but then I realized that his death did still pop up in two major ways. Giving Ally a ring that used to belong to him was very sentimental and far more touching than his disastrous environmentally-friendly first effort, and the arrival of sympathy flowers from Liam with an accompanying reference to a poem were the last straw in Paul’s miserable attempt to get his family to the park so that he could go through with his carefully-planned proposal. I appreciated the flashbacks to the first time he did it, which elicited a laugh and a lack of commitment from Ally. His father telling him he’d give him a hug if they were different people was his own form of lukewarm support, and his need to use the facilities prevented him from exercising any discretion with what Paul was trying to tell him. I enjoyed just how angry Paul got at Ally wanting to start the laundry before they left, and how she responded to his aggression by defiantly starting a second load. Showing up to the park with an umbrella to accept his proposal without actually saying the words was sweet, and I like that a moment like that could be so subtle and simple on this show. I know that awards attention is too much to hope for, but how cool and deserved would it be if these two stars or this show earned some accolades?